Famous Orators of the World and Their Best Orations: Containing the Lives of the Greatest Orators and Their Best Orations from Earliest Times to Present Day, with an Account of Place and Time of Delivery of Each Oration and Explanatory Notes on Obscure Passages : Arranged in Eighteen Great Epochs Or Books1902 |
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... WEBSTER Daniel Webster , Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun are rightly considered the first great triumvirate of American Orators , and Webster the foremost of them . ECESS HENRY CLAY ORATOR AND STATESMAN Henry Clay's rank as.
... WEBSTER Daniel Webster , Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun are rightly considered the first great triumvirate of American Orators , and Webster the foremost of them . ECESS HENRY CLAY ORATOR AND STATESMAN Henry Clay's rank as.
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... STATESMAN Henry Clay's rank as an orator has increased with time . His position was attained by painstaking effort . Clay , Webster and Calhoun are ranked together as the greatest American Orators . 30 SAMUEL ADAMS oratory . Adams ...
... STATESMAN Henry Clay's rank as an orator has increased with time . His position was attained by painstaking effort . Clay , Webster and Calhoun are ranked together as the greatest American Orators . 30 SAMUEL ADAMS oratory . Adams ...
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... statesmen , an able thinker , a skillful writer , and a brilliant orator . He took an active part in the debates on the Constitution , and after- wards in the Virginia Convention called to ratify it . Here he had to contend against the ...
... statesmen , an able thinker , a skillful writer , and a brilliant orator . He took an active part in the debates on the Constitution , and after- wards in the Virginia Convention called to ratify it . Here he had to contend against the ...
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... statesman of the convention , Benjamin H. Hill . But when the ordinance of secession was passed against their advice , they yielded their own opinions and went with their State , Hill becom- ing a Confederate Senator , and Stephens Vice ...
... statesman of the convention , Benjamin H. Hill . But when the ordinance of secession was passed against their advice , they yielded their own opinions and went with their State , Hill becom- ing a Confederate Senator , and Stephens Vice ...
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... expression , yet none of them based on such national exigencies as gave inspiration to the words of a Henry or a Webster . JOHN W. DANIEL ( 1842 A VIRGINIA ORATOR AND STATESMAN 167 BOOK IV RECENT POLITICAL ORATORS ix.
... expression , yet none of them based on such national exigencies as gave inspiration to the words of a Henry or a Webster . JOHN W. DANIEL ( 1842 A VIRGINIA ORATOR AND STATESMAN 167 BOOK IV RECENT POLITICAL ORATORS ix.
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